A question our daughter, an Occupational Therapist, asked my wife. The answer is that it’s for washing hands not feet! Serious point: if you’re getting on a bit, trying to wash your feet in a handbasin is not a good idea as it’s easy to fall and break something as my wife found out.
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Why us a handbasin so called?
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Jeez, is that how she did her pelvis? Even at 6’2” and very flexible I would not want to try and indeed would find it hard to put my feet into a handbasin .
Yup - and she's only 5'5''. I'm nearer 6'0'' and stopped doing it some years ago. Having mentioned it to her sisters, it turns it that one of them still washes her feet in the handbasin and she's mid-70s and only 5'5'' as well. We've also heard about several others in their 70s who still use the hand basin for washing their feet.
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Surely that’s what a bidet is for?
SamQ aka Ah! Q!
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And you wonder if that is toenail fungus or....
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Shower. The end.
spb
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It's quite common in Indian bathrooms to have a tap below the shower, at about hip height, for exactly the purpose of washing your feet. You have the temperature controls and mixer setup in the middle, then one pipe goes up to the shower head and one down to the foot-washing tap, with a separate control to decide which one you want to use. It's a setup that could stand to be more common around the world; over here I've always done it perched on the edge of the bathtub, which works but isn't exactly comfortable.
Of course, that's also a place where everyone routinely wears sandals all day outdoors in a very dusty environment, so washing your feet every time you come home, the moment you go indoors, is pretty much essential.
Of course, that's also a place where everyone routinely wears sandals all day outdoors in a very dusty environment, so washing your feet every time you come home, the moment you go indoors, is pretty much essential.
Woodbloke
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Not quite. Onsen. The end - Rob
Phil
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Shower, YES.
We have SS rails (grip with one hand, wash with other) and SS folding seats in both showers (very handy when we had shoulder ops).